Archives for October 2006
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Kids GoGoGo 11.2 Improves CGI Proxy Support
MAKI Enterprises announced the immediate availability of Kids GoGoGo 11.2, an Internet content blocking and filtering utility, on Wednesday.
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A Sharp Replaces Acta with Opal
A Sharp announced the immediate availability of Opal on Wednesday. Opal is an outlining application that replaces the Mac OS…
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SoCal MacFair 2006 Announces Class Lineup
SoCal MacFair announced its class session lineup and instructors on Wednesday.
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Lexink Introduces Google 2 in 1 widget
Lexink announced the immediate availability of its Google 2 in 1 widget on Wednesday.
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Apple By the Numbers: iPods Beat Estimates, Macs Break Record
Thanks to the introduction of new iPods last month, along with the completion of the transition to Intel processors with…
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Apple Execs: iPod+iTunes Juggernaut Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
With nearly nine million iPods sold last quarter, Apple's iPod+iTunes gravy train doesn't seem in danger of running off the…
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Oppenheimer: Apple Store Revenue up Over $1 Billion For Year
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed during the company's Wednesday conference call that fiscal year 2006 revenue from its chain of…
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Analyst: ‘Options Backdating is in AAPL’s Rearview Mirror, Jobs Will Remain CEO’
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Wednesday took a look at the options backdating issues surrounding Apple and its CEO,…
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Quark Introduces Quark Print Collection
CHICAGO -- Quark released its new Quark Print Collection for QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe Acrobat 7 during Graph Expo in…
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Third Diner Dash Game Released
PlayFirst has released Diner Dash: Flo on the Go, the third in the popular series of Diner Dash casual games.
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Apple Education Sales Beat Estimates
Apple reported strong numbers during its fourth quarter investor conference call on Wednesday, which led to Education sales above market…
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Apple Blows Out Q4; $546M Profit, 1.61M Macs, 8.7M iPods [UPDATE]
Apple Computer reported a blowout fiscal Q4 to close out a record year for the company. The company turned in…
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Deleting Stubborn Files
Occasionally, Mac OS X will refuse to delete a file from your Trash no matter what you try. You can…
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Digital Life 2006 Photo Gallery
John F. Braun take a photo tour of the Digital Life show floor with a birthday cake, giant video game…
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MakeMusic Adds Intel Support, More to Finale PrintMusic 2007
MakeMusic on Tuesday issued a Universal Binary version of Finale PrintMusic 2007, the company's entry-level solution for users who want…
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FastTrack Schedule Gets Universal Update
AEC Software on Tuesday released version 9.1 of FastTrack Schedule, bringing its flagship project management software to Universal Binary status,…
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Apple, IBM/Lenovo Top Reliability Report
RescueCom has issued its first annual Computer Reliability Report, placing IBM/Lenovo at the top of the list, with Apple following…
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Canto Updates Cumulus to Version 7.1
Canto announced Tuesday the release of Cumulus 7.1, a downloadable update to the media asset management solution. The update brings…
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Sony Recalls 90,000 Vaio Batteries
Sony on Tuesday said that it will recall 90,000 Vaio laptop batteries in Japan and China, bringing the total batteries…
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Stone Design’s Videation Nation Turns iSight Into Screen Saver
Mac OS X and NEXTSTEP veteran developer Stone Design announced Tuesday the release of Videation Nation, a free Mac OS…
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FilmThreat Video: Steve Jobs Goes "Boom!"
You'll have to see it to believe it, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently likes to say "Boom!" during his…
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InfoWorld Columnist Predicts Vista vs. Leopard Media Frenzy
The tech and non tech press will have an orgy of positive Vista coverage when Microsoft finally ships the overdue…
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M-Audio Ships Conectiv & Torq DJ Solutions
M-Audio announced Tuesday the shipment of the Conectiv 4 x 4 USB DJ audio interface, and Torq DJ production software…
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SimpleHighlight Plug-In Gets Universal Update
24U Software has updated its 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In to version 2.0, which is a Universal Binary that also includes several…
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Adobe Announces PDF Print Engine 1.1
CHICAGO -- Adobe announced PDF Print Engine 1.1 during Graph Expo in Chicago. Adobe PDF Print Engine manages PDF design…
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RoboCatalog Adds QuarkXPress Support
CHICAGO -- RoboCatalog announced during Graph Expo in Chicago that its RoboCatalog Suite is gaining support for Quark's professional page…
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Very Odd Games
Doing games right, not just once, but more times than you shake a sore joystick thumb at is the subject…
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Apple Plans Earnings Call For Wednesday
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 2:00 PM PDT (5:00 PM EDT), Apple will announce the results of its previous fiscal…
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Mac Geek Gab #74: Digital Life, More Shortcuts, and Then Some
John attended the Digital Life show this week, with lots to report. Then he and Dave follow-up on the keyboard…
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Pirate Translator and Pangea Arcade
One of the coolest pieces of free software I've happened across in a while, Pirate Translator by Tim Moses has…
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Insider Tricks in Apple’s Latest TV Ads
Apple's latest TV ads cannot be thoroughly evaluated based on product claims, accuracy, or the opinions of expert Apple customers.…
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Maxtor Pumps Up Drive Capacity to 1.5TB
Helping to address the need of users to both store and back up large video, photo and audio files, Maxtor…
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McAfee SiteAdvisor Helps You Surf Safely
McAfee showed their SiteAdvisor tool at the recent ShowStoppers press event. It provides information on several features of a Web…
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AppZapper 1.7 Adds Application Exporting
In theory, uninstalling applications in Mac OS X should be as simple as a drag-and-drop to the Trash. Unfortunately, the…
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Intel Eyes Move to 45nm Manufacturing Technology
Tom Kilroy, Intel's general manager of its digital entertainment group, told the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei that the company…
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Apple Buys FinalTouch Software Maker Silicon Color
Silicon Color recently updated its Web site to note that its technology and intellectual property, including its FinalTouch color correction…
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Facial Recognition App SDK Gets OS X Support
Lithuanian developer Neurotechnologija on Monday announced that the SDK (software development kit) for its VeriLook facial recognition software now supports…
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Small Tree Announces Gigabit Ethernet 34mm ExpressCard for MacBook Pro
Small Tree Communications announced Monday the release of the Small Tree PEG34m, a Gigabit Ethernet 34mm ExpressCard for the Apple…
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Columnist: Mac Only More Secure Due to Obscurity
Mac OS X is only more secure than Windows due to its low market share, according to ZDNet Australia's Patrick…
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Wall Street Journal Profiles Apple COO Tim Cook
The Wall Street Journal has published a profile of Apple COO Tim Cook, looking at Mr. Cook's powerful, yet low…
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Marware’s Protection Pack Plus Fits MacBook, MacBook Pro
Marware has launched an enhanced version of its standard Protection Pack for MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops.
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Quark Announces QuarkXPress Server 7
CHICAGO -- Quark announced a new version of their Digital Document Server at Graph Expo in Chicago on Monday.
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Searching PDFs with Acrobat
Spotlight can search the contents of specific file types like PDF by using kind keywords, but Adobe Acrobat and Adobe…